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Oct 2, 2015

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Software Engineering Interview

Anonymous Employee in New York, NY

Accepted Offer

Positive Experience

Difficult Interview

Application

I applied through college or university. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at S&P Global Market Intelligence (New York, NY) in March 2015.

Interview

Interview consisted of an on campus written exam followed by two in person interviews. Having passed those, they invited me to a "super-days" interview day at their office in NYC, which consisted of some networking events and three more in-person interviews. In total, I had 5 in-person interviews with 6 different people, two networking events, and an exam.

First interview was a phone screen, which covered the basics of object oriented design. Second interview came a couple months later and was on site with three individual engineers. This interview was bit more in debt, it involved 3 questions related to algorithm design, application design and a high level implementation the database objects required to store the applications data with the correct normalization. The questions were quite manageable and came from regular scenarios which would occur in most enterprise solutions. The last interview was over the phone and was strategically focused on the technologies that position required. Mostly focus on SOA and the Microsoft stack which can be used to build these type of solutions.

Interview Questions

One of the interviewers asked about database isolation and optimizing a process which will have a high level of concurrency. This was not difficult for me but was unexpected. Answer Question

Software Engineer Interview

I applied through college or university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at S&P Global Market Intelligence (New York, NY) in October 2014.

Interview

Three interviews:-1. First Round(phone) :HR based interviews with general HR questions and provided a coding Quiz(Fraction point).

2. Second Round(phone): Interview with the hiring manager, general questions about my experience and courses taken at school. Discussed about my projects and how I could improve it now, and also went over the quiz.

3. Third Round (on-site) : 3 Round interviews with 4 different people(two in the last round). First round asked general question for 10 mins and provided to a coding quiz to be solved in 45 mins.

It had 4 questions ,all Data structures and OOPS based.1.Least Common Ancestor in a BST.2. Merging two sorted lists.3.How to Designing cache to return data faster (solution-hashtable) and how to improve it with multiple requests(multi-threading..)4. How to design vending Machine.

Second Round, the interviewer went over each solution and asked questions around the problem, improvements, and running times.

Third Round, two interviewers went over OOP, Design Patter, multi-threading, etc. Asked me to design and write codes for a Deck of cards for Blackjack, and some features of BlackJack Game(shuffling, players, giving cards to each player, etc).

Software Engineer Interview

I applied through college or university. The process took 4+ weeks. I interviewed at S&P Global Market Intelligence (New York, NY).

Interview

On-Campus: Written test followed by a follow-up in person interview.On-site:3 back to back technical interviews, 40-45 minutes each.Questions:1. Design "Undo" and "Redo" feature for a text editor.2. Given an integer array, return "1" if sum of any two numbers is zero.3. Use two dice to create a random number generator (0-15).4. What is a Race Condition?5. Given a continuous stream of characters, find the first non-repeating character.

Software Engineer Interview

I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at S&P Global Market Intelligence (New York, NY) in October 2013.

Interview

Had an on campus interview. Took 30 minutes paper test and then went through all the questions with the interviewer. Some follow-up questions from the interviewers are not easy compare to the written test.

Interview Questions

Binary tree path sumfind a linkedlist's nth to last nodeCache designDB designcount the number of bits in a char Answer Question

Software Engineer Interview

I applied through college or university. I interviewed at S&P Global Market Intelligence (New York, NY).

Interview

I applied through my university's career web site before 2009, and was contacted for the first round interview.

First round - Two technical interviews with software engineers. We were given a paper test with 5 questions that have been stated close to verbatim in previous reviews (find closest common parent of two nodes, reverse a linked list, count # of bits in a byte, db schema, cache design). The interviews are essentially a review of that paper test, and you may be asked to answer a slightly-modified version on one of the questions.

Final round - Two technical interviews and one HR interview. Both of the interviewers were senior engineers, and they asked different types of programming questions that are more or less on par with the paper test in the first round. The HR interview was very relaxed.

During the process, you eat lunch with other employees (with no connection to the interviewers) and may ask questions. My process was quick; I was contacted the day of the first round interview for the final round invite, and I was contacted a week after the final round with an offer and accepted.

Interview Questions

-Finding the lowest common parent of two nodes can be tricky-Detecting a palindrome (this was asked to nearly every candidate when I was applying) Answer Question

Negotiation

Was able to push back start-time, and slightly change the compensation.

Software Engineer Interview

I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at S&P Global Market Intelligence (New York, NY) in April 2012.

Interview

There was an initial paper exam consisting of five question which were not particularly hard.They includedi. write a function that gets the number of set bits in a characterii. Reverse a linkedlistiii. Find the least common ancestor in a tree

These questions are used as a conversation starter for the actual interview.It is important that you get them right but I doubt if they are of any great consequence

Software Engineer Interview

I applied through college or university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at S&P Global Market Intelligence (New York, NY) in February 2011.

Interview

I dropped my resume off at the campus career fair. Was contacted afterward to take a test at the school; after completing the test I was taken to their headquarters in New York. I interview with 3 people, it didn't go well, because their questions were either questioning projects I'd written or write extremely simple code, so there wasn't much to talk about when they're expecting some kind of thinking process that really is unnecessary.

Software Engineer Interview candidates at S&P Global Market Intelligence rate the interview process an overall positive experience. Interview candidates say the interview experience difficulty for Software Engineer at S&P Global Market Intelligence is average. Some recently asked S&P Global Market Intelligence Software Engineer interview questions were, "All are behavior interview questions. They asked detailed questions about my former experience and my long term goal" and "Whosoever is trying to give interview and S&P global market intelligence, for Business analyst position Ahmedabad, please go through my experience; In July 2016, S&P global had Business analyst opening, and I did not clear the interview as I was not able to answer few questions correctly, I assume its ok if you dont know answers of 3 questions from say 10 questions. Matter over In Aug 2017, I got call from one of the vendor (Mind it here vendor is not at fault at all) for opening of BA in S&P global ahmedabad, the S&P global outrightly rejected my Application without taking interview giving reason I was interviewed earlier (thats is more than 1 year back). So if any one is giving interview at S&P global and fail to get selected, door to S&P global will be closed permanently even if interview happened 1 year back. Another thing I noticed, in july 2017 S&P global has given walkin for Business analyst, but till sept(Till date) they are not able to close the opening, so Ideally they are not friendly employer. So guys please think multiple times while going for interview. I have not twisted facts its reality.Another fact is S&P global business analyst position would on pay roll of vendor situated at mumbai, so if S&P global is not happy with performance, they can remove candidate and as vendor is from mumbai, local ahmedabad candidate will be in fix to shift the location. So before going for interview think multiple times. I hope I have guided all ahmedabad candidates who works for feeding family and paying EMI, such kind of companies disturbs our family balances. good luck.". 6% of the interview applicants applied online.